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Title:

Trading culture : global traffic and local cultures in film and television / edited by Sylvia Harvey.

Publisher:

John Libbey ;

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Culture and globalization.
Social change--Cross-cultural studies.
Motion pictures--Social aspects.
Television programs--Social aspects.
Cultural industries--Social aspects.
Acculturation.
Culture et mondialisation.
Changement social--Études transculturelles.
Cinéma--Aspect social.
Télévision--Aspect social.--Aspect social.
Industries culturelles--Aspect social.
Massenmedien.
Kulturvergleich.
Medienpolitik.
Medienrecht.
Film.
Fernsehen.
Gesellschaft.
Sozialer Wandel.

Other Authors:

Harvey, Sylvia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Afterword -- Trading cultural commodities or promoting cultural diversity? UNESCO's new convention / Sylvia Harvey and Carole Tongue. Media policy-making in the free trade era: the impact of the GATS negotiations on audiovisual industries / Des Freedman -- The 'wrong type' of Television: New Labour, British broadcasting and the rise and fall of an exports 'problem' / Simon Blanchard -- Indigenous culture and the politics of place: regulation for regionalism in British broadcasting / Sylvia Harvey Section 2 National Industries: Global Currents -- Ahead of the bandwagon: Lebanon's free media market / Dima Dabbous-Sensenig -- Trading genie out of the bottle: global currents in India's film and television industries / Manjunath Pendakur -- Going global: the Brazilian scripted film / Lucia Nagib -- Copycat TV and new trade routes in Asia and the Pacific / Albert Moran and Michael Keane -- From Latin Americans to Lations: Spanish-language television and its audiences in the United States / John Sinclair -- National cinema as cultural exchange: the international circuit of Scottish films / Duncan Petrie Section Three: National Cultures in a Transatlantic Context -- Special Relatinships: Anglo -- American screen romance and nationality / Sarah Street -- American production in Britain during the 1950s: culture, economics and geography / Tom Ryall -- Adventure, exchange and identity: British, American, and Un-American involvement in costume adventure TV series and films in the postwar era / Steve Neale -- Brigitte Bardot and Hollywood's takeover of the US art film market in the 1960s / Tino Balio -- Crossing over: exporting indigenous heritage to the USA / Andrew Higson Afterword -- Trading cultural commodities or promoting cultural diversity? UNESCO's new convention / Sylvia Harvey and Carole Tongue.

Summary:

This collection explores a variety of contemporary and historical issues related to the trade in cultural commodities between cultures, countries and continents. The contributors write from a variety of perspectives within the field of film, TV and cultural studies, and all touch upon the distinctiveness of cultural expression.

ISBN:

9780861966691
0861966694

OCLC:

(OCoLC)82480785

LCCN:

2007405676

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)